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Show HIS GREED F0EG0L1). EMMET HAND TAKES A SHORT CUT TO MAMMON'S SHRINE, Ili Arrest in this City this Morning Tor Tapping the Retort A Perjury Case in Court Tlie Souorro Adultery The Court Calendar. Entrapped this morning;, rushed before a Commissioner, Emmet Hand pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny and now laug-- laug-- uishes iu a cell at the peu. it was lightning work. I an met has. for a long time, been employed employ-ed as engineer at the Merc 'ir gold mill and was always looked upon as an employee Worthy of every latitude. He was permitted to gae upon the gilded rctarls, to Juggle the precious spheres and it was this that probably proba-bly overcame him. Keeeutly the attache! at the mill discovered that something was wronc. That the precious metal was cither 'lipping into the tailings or on the other hand slipping through somebody's lingers. A conference was held, an examination of the mill was mado and the latter theory was adopted. Attention of the officers was called to the losses and the sleuths put on the trail. In the meantime Hand, the engineer, had thrown up his job and come to Salt Lake. The various assayers were visited and a few days ago it was learned that a quantity of amalgam ha 1 been sold through McVieUer's. A description descrip-tion of the party who had left it there was obtained. It tallied exactly with Hand and the detectives started out in search of him. This morning they were rewarded. Officer Pool saw a passenger answering the description of Hand boarding an outgoing outgo-ing train andjrnadt a lunge for him. Hand was brought down with the grip the copper's 'grip and taken before Commissioner ijBreenman admitted everything. Id' had Moles the amalgum disposed of through eSlcVlckor's and had received $114 fur it. j He wanted to go to the penitentiary at once hut was held under the rule to the action of the grand jury. There is no telling how much the Morcur Gold Mining t Milling company have lost iu this way, but having captured one it is possible that in his lessening lessen-ing his own o If elite he will shed some light on others. A Land Fraud. A change from the general class of ot lenses on the criminal calendar was experienced experi-enced this morning w hen the ease of the United States against Ephralm J, Nash, charged with perjury was called, and a strapping, sunburned granger took a seat under the oaves of the dais. H whs alleged al-leged in tlu com plaint that N'ash had made an affidavit of entry of desert lands, which affidavit represented had been hitherto unsettled and unoccupied j when he knew they were occupied by R. N. Beuttett. The defendant was represented by Mr. Sullivan who demurred to the warrant in that it did not cite tOffiClont to support a cause of action. I.'pon tiiis the arguments opened. Court Xotes. Judge Anderson hat returned to the city, after u trip to Washington. Tho original Indictments against Kronk and King, the counterfeiters, were this morning dismissed. Thompson, the man who was arrested at Denver in company with counterfeiter eprngue, is in jail at Denver, awaiting tho action of the United Stutes graud jury, which convenes in May. 3, H. Jackli, the sheep herder who was sent Up a year a";o for shooting the arm off a rival shepercl, was this Blowing discharged. |